page_title: Sustainable Groundwater Management Act
section_title: SB 1168
hierarchical_section_title: Sustainable Groundwater Management Act / Legislation / SB 1168
caption_attribution_description: Electronic "Barologger" datalogger used for groundwater monitoring, Coronado National Memorial, Arizona.
context_page_description: The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act is a three-bill package that passed the California state legislature and was signed into California state law by Governor Jerry Brown in September 2014. Its purpose is to ensure better local and regional management of groundwater use and it seeks to have a sustainable groundwater management in California by 2042. It emphasizes local management and formed groundwater sustainability agencies from local and regional authorities.
  Proposition 1 provides $100 million to financially support sustainable groundwater management as well as cleanup and storage.
context_section_description: The California Constitution and SB 1168 require that any use of the groundwater be both reasonable and beneficial. California has a history of complex water rights, in which the Reasonable and Beneficial Use Doctrine is a key tenet. The doctrine was originally developed for riparian landowners and surface water management, but SB 1168 applied it to the context of groundwater and the SGMA, stating that any use of groundwater has to be sustainably managed for long-term reliability and multiple economic, social, and environmental benefits for future uses.
  Specifically, SB 1168 gives GSAs the authority to:
  Require registration from a groundwater extraction facility
  Require that a groundwater extraction facility be measured by a water-measuring device and to regulate the extraction based off the measurements
  Conduct inspections and obtain warrants
  It requires the Department of Water Resources to:
  Investigate California's groundwater basins every five years and report its findings to the California State Legislature
  Look at the monitoring of groundwater elevations in each basin and prioritize them based on adverse effects to the local habitats and streamflows
caption: An Electronic "Barologger" data-logger is being used to measure the depth to groundwater in this well. This is one form of groundwater monitoring that SB 1168 requires extraction facilities to implement regularly.
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